Adolescent Ward Clerk

**SA Health**
**Job reference**: 891947
**Location**: 5006 - NORTH ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Short Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone
- **Women's and Children's Health Network, Division of Paediatric Medicine, North Adelaide (5006)**
- **Salary/Classification - ASO2 - Administrative Services Officer L2 - $58,709 to $63,154**

**Employment Full time - Term Contract (temporary up to 12 Sept 2025)**

**About the Opportunity**

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the **Paediatric Medical Wards**team as a** Adolescent Ward Clerk,**where you will be responsible for:

- Providing a friendly and professional front-line ward service to the department.
- Maintaining and preparing patient files/folders/noticeboards for admissions.
- Liaising regularly throughout the day with the shift coordinator, NUM/ANUM and ward staff regarding patient movements, admissions, discharges, and appointments as required.
- Maintaining accurate patient data on all patient information systems, for example SUNRISE and OACIS.
- Providing an administrative assistant support service to the Nurse Unit Manager and other staff as required, e.g. word processing, minute taking.
- Attending to, screening and appropriately directing telephone calls.

**About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Previous administrative / clerical experience and familiarity with the use of windows and Microsoft Office products, e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.
- Provide a consultancy and advisory service to management and staff at all levels to establish and maintain both integrity and confidentiality in dealing with issues of a sensitive nature.
- Work independently and under limited direction to meet deadlines and achieve agreed outputs whilst working with demanding and sometimes competing priorities.
- The ability to work effectively in a team and being able to communicate, both verbally and in writing, to a wide range of people on a range of sensitive and complex issues.
- Ability to deal with situations, staff and patients with maturity and empathy.
- Good working knowledge of Medical Terminology.

**What WCHN Can Offer You**
- Salary package a range of benefits (including living expenses such as mortgage, rent, utility bills and groceries) up to $9,010 each FBT year + $2,650 for Meal Entertainment expenses each FBT year.
- Access to Fitness Passport (workplace health and fitness program that gives you and your family access to a wide choice of gyms and pools across South Australia.)
- Access to generous leave provisions and professional development opportunities
- Support for you and your family via our Employee Assistance Program

**About Us**

The **Women’s & Children’s Health Network** is the state’s leading provider of best practice health care for women, babies, children and young people across South Australia. We offer:

- specialist care for children with acute and chronic conditions
- state of the art maternity and obstetric care services
- community based services reaching hundreds of thousands of babies, children and young people, their families and communities across SA
- specialist programs including Mental Health, Child & Family Health services, Youth and Aboriginal Health services.

Join our patient centred team and contribute to providing South Australia’s women, babies, children and young people with the best health care through both within our hospital or via our many and varied community services and programs.

Our values of Compassion, Respect, Equity, Accountability and working Together for Excellence or CREATE Together represent who we are as a Network.

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**Special Conditions**

To find out more about this role, including key selection criteria, all special conditions and minimum requirements, please click on the attached role description and also review our document checklists below.

Immunisation Requirements Checklist

Applicant Documents Checklist

**Application Instructions**

**Other Important Information**

The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.

**Enquiries**:
**Bec Baxter**

**Position: A/Administration Manager, Paediatric Medicine**

**Phone: 8161 8395**

**Application Closing Date**: 06/02/2025 - 11:55pm

**Useful Links**

ASO2 Ward Clerk - Division of Paediatric Medicine - Role Description 891947

**Flexibility Statement**
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